MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon laid out a plan Wednesday to help his country avoid or mitigate the effects of the economic uncertainty besetting other nations.

"The world is in a grave crisis, and this affects us," he said in a nationally televised address.

He predicted that the crisis would result in fewer Mexican exports, fewer tourists, fewer international companies investing in Mexico and fewer Mexican migrants sending money home from the United States.